PST to IST Converter (Pacific Time to India Time)

Mid-January 2026: IST is 13 hours 30 minutes ahead of PST. Mid-July 2026: IST is 12 hours 30 minutes ahead of PDT.

Pacific Time is the clock of California, Washington and Oregon, home to a large share of the American technology industry. India Standard Time is UTC+05:30, and Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Pune and Chennai host many of the engineering teams that work with it. The two places are almost half a day apart.

Only the American side moves its clocks. In winter, India is 13 hours 30 minutes ahead of Pacific Standard Time. After daylight saving time begins on March 8, 2026, the gap falls to 12 hours 30 minutes.

How to use this tool

1. Pick a date and time in PST. The date matters when daylight saving time is in force.
2. Read the matching time in IST, with both UTC offsets.
3. Use "Use current time" for now, or the tables below for a quick look.

Formula

IST time = PST time − (PST UTC offset) + (IST UTC offset)

The converter looks up both UTC offsets for the actual instant in the saved IANA time zone rules, so daylight saving changes are included automatically.

Example

Worked with the saved rules:

9:00 AM PST on March 2, 2026 = 10:30 PM IST

6:30 PM PDT on August 3, 2026 = 7:00 AM IST (next day)

Time difference through the year

The difference depends on the date when either place moves its clocks. These are the offsets on two reference days, from the saved IANA rules:

Clock changes in 2026

Between these dates the difference shifts by the size of the change.

PST to IST time table

Each hour in Pacific Time with the matching India Standard Time time in winter and summer (reference days in January and July).

IST to PST time table

Each hour in India Standard Time with the matching Pacific Time time in winter and summer (reference days in January and July).

Hours that work in both places

Hours (on the January reference day) that fall between 8:00 AM and 8:00 PM in both PST and IST:

Check the summer column above when one of the places is on daylight saving time.

Engineering teams across California and India

A 9:00 a.m. start in San Francisco corresponds to 10:30 p.m. in Bengaluru in winter, so shared meetings are scheduled either late in the Indian evening or early in the California morning. A 6:00 a.m. Pacific stand-up is 7:30 p.m. in India.

Teams that hand work over each day take advantage of the gap. The California team finishes in the late afternoon, which is the following morning in India, and the Indian team begins from where it was left, so the work seems to run around the clock.

Writing times that cannot be misread

Because India sits so far ahead, dates are the usual source of errors. A message that says "Friday 5:00 p.m. PST" is Saturday 6:30 a.m. in India. Write both dates in an invitation or name the zone together with the day.

Calendar programs usually add the right offset, but a pasted time in plain text does not. Use the converter for the exact date, since the summer shift of one hour applies only between March 8 and November 1.